mr. mcintyre. >> guest: as far as we know, as far as we can tell putin is ruthless. he is backed into a quarter. he is desperate. he has gambled big on this and he is capable of doing something beyond just the conventional warfare. the united states is worried that he mightso use chemical weapons in ukraine. the u.s. is a a bracing for cr attacks on u.s. infrastructure. that could cause major problems for the u.s. we saw what happened when the colonial pipeline was crippled. and as i said he also in theory could use some small limited nuclear weapon. although it's problematic because ukraine is right on his border and any effects of that would also affect russia. what we believe is that putin is not interested in some major exchange of nuclear weapons. the whole theory of their nuclear doctrine is that this one strike would be so shocking that nobody would respond to it and there would be immediate calls for peace and that russia could prevail on itsts terms by basically having a one and done small nuke. there's no indication that he has any appetite for an all-out n

mr. mcintyre, welcome. >> mr. chairman, ranking member tester and the members of the senate committee on veterans affairs-- it's an honor to appear before you today and pleased to do so with patty and those from the bob and elizabeth dole foundation. we've been serving the military and veterans population for nearly 25 years now. we are privileged helping them respond to the health care needs veterans from pc-3 to replacing the health net, it's been quite a journey. we've tried to remain nimble and one objective to support with not compete with the v hamilton for providing timely care for veterans. through the use of capacity process and leveraging the footprint of our nonprofit owners we've tailored highly, high quality networks in collaboration with va to patch the unique demands of each and veterans. our network will soon contain all academic affiliates for region four has now delivered more than 32 million medical appointments in support of va to give them needed elasticity. this has included everything from m

in 2017 we paired mr. mcintyre with rich glick, who will continue to serve through mid-2022. so the slot we are now considering is to fill the remainder of mr. mcintyre's term through mid-2023. the fact of the matter is, we have one nomination for the senate right now, not two. we have one nomination to consider, and this position has been open now for some 14 months. it is not fair to tell a qualified republican nominee that he has to wait, especially with the seat now having been open for more than a year and the term expiring in mid-2023. that doesn't change. i would also remind my colleagues that nominations are the responsibility of the president. it's not on me as the chairman of the energy committee. it's not on leader mcconnell. it is the responsibility of the president. the much more recent democratic vacancy at ferc, which was the choice of the democratic leadership in this body, is for the democratic leadership to work this out with the white house, send to the white house that nominee that can be advanced. for those who are concerned about the democratic vacancy,

the option part comes from the final paragraph of mr. mcintosh so work after your virtue. mcintyre wrote in that earlier history when men and women of good will turn aside to and to identify the continuation of the moral community. but they set themselves to achieve instead often is not recognizing fully what they were doing that the more light could be sustained but mcintyre famously said with a new and doubtless fairytale benedict the way of life that the virtues can survive. that is where "the benedict option" comes from. the option part comes from mcintyre saying it is the turning point when they chose to maintain to creating small communities so the option with additional christians and in this time of cultural dissolution. and then to shore up to create new ways of living not only faith but the core values and heritage of western civilization. i am a cultural and political pessimist and i suspect probably too far gone recovered within this order. i could be wrong. i hope i'm wrong but i don't think i am. as a christian and for christians caring deeply about the weste

madam chair, if i could ask a follow-up, back to mr. mcintyre. other things they can do in the industry can do to enhance grid resilience that don't involve subsidies for specific energy resources? >> yes, i think there are, indeed we have taken such measures. we have taken steps too, for example have preapprovals for sharing of cost of spare transformers, something that undeniably helps promote resilience, and taking other actions in that vein as well. resilience is a complex concept and indeed part of our ongoing work in our proceeding to ensure that we fully understand all aspects of the concept and properly reflect their decision-making. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. senator smith. >> madam chair and thanks to all of you for being here. i regret that i missed some of the back-and-forth between your my colleagues earlier but i appreciated your testimony. thank you very much. i understand there was a good discussion around the administration proposals around favoring coal and nuclear, even if they're not price competitive. one thing i w

mcintyre, do you believe that's within his authority to do so? >> within the authority of the secretary? >> the president. >> oh, the president. well, under the -- >> secretary berry, -- perry, right. basically directing secretary perry. >> it is up to the secretary of energy to determine whether the conditions exist for the invocation of the -- >> you do believe that the administration has the authority to take measures to preserve the power plant critical for national security? >> there's no question that the secretary does, and since the secretary reports to the president, it stands to reason finish. >> thank you, share. i know that's been your statement before, and i appreciate that. in 2009 -- in 2009 someone living in the state of west virginia on an 1% poverty level that we have, $88.16 was our what do codo you consider to be base load? i thought it was 24/7, no way it could be interrupted power. you tell me what else does that besides nukes and coal. and this is only for 4 months -- 24 months, correct? the order by perry is 24 months? you

mcintyre. but the option part comes from mcintyre to say the turning point came when people chose to quit trying to maintain the moment of order and instead committed to creating resilient small communities that with which they could survive. the option, the choice traditional christian and others committed to the western cultural tradition in this time of radical fragmentation do we believe they try to shore up or create new ways of living to preserving not only are they but the core values and the heritage of western civilization. as a political and cultural pessimist, i suspect things are probably too far gone to be recovered and i could be wrong. i hope i am i don't think i am. so i wrote "the benedict option" as a christian for christian but in truth anyone who carries the guest cares about the western tradition has to have some version of "the benedict option" just yesterday i received an e-mail from the student at an ivy league college. a latino, aps and conservative he wrote a column fo

mr. mcintyre good to see you again. when yo you were worked for the committee for your nomination hearing, we briefly discussed integrating into the power grid and we actually have an energy bill of rights that allows consumers to generate the export and store renewable energy on their property. do you believe there are additional actions that can allow access to these markets? >> there may well be, thank you for the question. there's been work prior to my arrival and we have a record of materials that have been set up to address this very question that is part of the work that remains before the personally. it's something we will turn our attention to. >> they issued a proposed rule that would eliminate the barriers to the participation of renewable energy and the wholesale markets that is precisely the work we were referring to. >> do you have a sense of how? >> i don't have a specific calendar in mind for it. >> you provide a number of key recommendations on how to increase resiliency but i'm curious if you have any

mcintyre of virginia to be a member for the term expiring june 30, 2023. mr. mcconnell: i ask consent that the senate vote on the nominations en bloc with no intervening action or debate, that if confirmed, the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table en bloc, the president be immediately notified of the senate's action, that no further motions be in order, and that any statements relating to the nominations be principled in the record. the presiding officer: the questions occur on the nominations en bloc. all those in favor say aye. those opposed, say no. the ayes appear to have it. the ayes do have it. the nominations are approved en bloc. mr. mcconnell: i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to the en bloc consideration of the following nominations -- executive calendar 378, 380, and 385. the presiding officer: without objection, the clerk shall report the nominations. the clerk: nominations, national mediation board. kyle fortson of the district of columbia to be a member. gerald w.fauth of virginia to be a member. lindh did a a

and what mcintyre said to mrs. roosevelt is call on me if you need help. he said at the start of the president's tizzies. that what's eleanor would call it when the president got upset. advertiseys. he cooperated on the menu and tried to get the president's appetite back to normal. sent to new york for specialists be brought in doctors from the navy hospital and a dietician arrived in uniform. the president ate everything he was supposed to eat but a it was ordered by in the navy. the orders were cut out all fried foods. one direct disfrom the doctor. typically the president get haze they want to get and they african-american staff is caught in the middle and they often have to help the president out. love this exchange with dealing with lizzy mcduffy and daisy bonner. lizzy ways wove 0oj mcduffy, prosecute relevant's valet, and so she eventually comes to the white house and works as a maid. some would ouch accompany roosevelt on long trims but interesting thing about lizzy mcduffy is that she had an outsized personality. she would entertain the president

. >> mr. mcintyre how important we have especially should ship between the united states and great britain is for world security to date? >> that's a question of giving more than than two minutes on. sadly vital. it's still the strongest and most important of the relationships particularly in an era which signals intelligence which is so important during the second world war. sadly vital and the relationship between gchq which is our equivalent of britain is absolutely vital. i would argue it's probably never been more special will. that is true of intelligence generally. we imagine don't way that somehow war has moved on but actually human intelligence are up to lead the core of all of our freedoms will and have been for very long time. ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much. [applause] [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaud [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] and booktv's live coverage of the 2017 national book festi

so what mcintyre said was colony if you need help. dr. mcintyre said to mrs. roosevelt. he cooperated in try to get the president back to normal finally he brought in doctors from the navy hospital the present eight every thing he was told simply because of the orders by the navy so to cut out all fried foods that was one directive from the doctor but typically the president will get what they get in the african-american staff is caught in the middle helping the president out. so i love the exchange sold is the was the wife of the president's longtime valet so she comes to the white house as a maid and often get a company resolved on a long trip but what was interesting about this the she had a big personality she would entertain the president with puppet showsy shows, and early version of the muppets called a suicide. [laughter] and the president would love them so she was a favoritet. and actually she would campaign for the president. so in 1936 she was on the stump in major cities this is from these baltimore african-american newspaper that said over 350 years to be a

mr. david mcintyre, president and ceo of the west health care alliance. mr. john whitley, ceo at the institute for defense analysis. we have the honorable assistant secretary of defense for health affairs, vice admiral richard and outpatient days, lieutenant general of the air force. weissman drove at the navy pier but in a general blast surgeon general of the army. senator mccain has made this a priority to find a way to reform health care. we made a good effort and i think some breakthroughs in terms of retirement reform and now it is health care served because it's such a big part of the budget. last year the military modernization commission gave us an important report on the system complete with numerous recommend nation. without the commission scraper, we could not have reformed military retirement system and the conference we did. but we have more work to do. the mission will also make recommendations to assure service members receive the best possible combat casualty care to access, choice and health care for all beneficiaries and family members with

so a number of scholar -- somebody, i think it may have been mr. bauerlein, is that how you say your last name? -- listed a series of sort of principles of american society, civic virtue, individualism, limited government, etc. a number of scholars, probably most famously alistair mcintyre, in recent years have suggested that these, the principles of classical liberalism are actually not particularly reconcilable with the sort of christian view of the natural north korean -- that mr.-- sorry, i can't read your -- dreesback, i think, may have been alluding to. do we have to sacrifice classical liberalism in order to recover a sort of view of the person as having a moral place in the world that can answer this kind of relativistic view that i think professor blume was talking about in the closing of the american mind? and how does -- what does that mean for american conservatives, many of whom are classical liberals? >> anybody want to take that one up? would you like to write a book on that subject? [laughter] maybe you should answer that question.

so a number of scholar -- somebody, i think it may have been mr. bauerlein, is that how you say your last name? listed a series of sort of principles of american society civic virtue individualism limited government, etc. a number of scholars, probably most famously alistair mcintyre in recent years, have suggested that these the principles of classical liberalism are actually not particularly reconcilable with the sort of christian view of the natural person that mr.-- i'm sorry, i can't read your -- i think may have been alluding to. do we have to sacrifice classical liberalism in order to recover a sort of view of the person as having a moral place in the world that can answer this kind of relativistic view that i think professor bloom was talking about in the closing of "the american mind." and how does -- what does that mean for american conservatives many of whom are classical liberals? >> anybody want to take that one up? would you like to, would you like to write a book on that subject? [laughter] maybe you should answer that question. what

providers, mr. mcintyre, i enjoyed our meeting earlier this week. i appreciate your being here today. >> thank you, mr. chairman. chairman, ranking member members of the community we are committed to making the program work and provide veterans timely and geographically accessible quality care using care in the community whenever necessary. i we will talk i will talk shortly about what we're doing and the help we need to make it happen. first i want to talk about access to care. most mornings at 9:00 a.m. for the last year's senior leaders from across the department gather to focus on improving veterans access to care. we concentrate on we concentrate on key drivers of access including increasing medical center staffing by 11,000 adding space, boosting care during extended hours and weekends and increasing staff productivity. the result, 2.5 million more completed appointments inside the va this year than last. of relative value units to make common measure of care used to measure care delivered across the industry is also up 9 percent. another anot

and mr. mcintyre five minutes, okay. we've got microphones on either side if anybody has a question please stand up, state your name and your affiliation. hope you are an nyu affiliated individual. >> dapper from gaithersburg, maryland. i'm a 27 year alum of nyu. >> perfect. >> you will make it. pay the tuition, trust me. pay the loans off, you will make it. reward will come. one we have an incredible administrative burden in the health care system. i happen to work in the pharmaceutical industry and access to getting drugs i putting hurdles with prior authorization gets in way of patient care. i am a pharmacist by training so i care about patients. it's important to me but one of the other administrative burdens or lack of harmonization is actually within the government itself. the government is the largest pair of health care but there's so many systems. we designated administration active military and their beneficiaries. we've got medicare medicaid. how come we haven't gotten some harmonization there? it is a single

jim mcintyre, washington state treasurer. along with david miller, who was the tennessee state treasurer. mr. lillard, i want to begin with what do state treasurer is due? guest: they're usually the chief financial officers of their state and they managed hundreds of billions of dollars for state governments and local governments entities throughout the united states, including pension funds. they play a very important role in fiscal health. host: how do you go about doing your job? guest: a sickly investing monday -- investing money and offering programs to citizens of that they can use in their state like that. host: jim mcintyre, who do you report to in your job? i elected, pointed, how does it work? guest: i'm elected by the voters every four years and we have nine statewide elected officials in washington state. other states have fewer, but we are very active and i report to the voters. i am there to try and make an independent voice on fiscal health and how we manage our finances. both short and long-term. this is a lon

mr. littler i want to begin with what the state treasurer is due? >> guest: state treasures are generally the chief financial officers and a manager -- manage hundreds of billions of dollars for state and local governments throughout the united states including in some cases pension fund so they play an important role. >> host: how do you go about doing your job? >> guest: by basically investing money and being prudent stewards of that number one but also by offering programs to citizens that they can use in their states like financial literacy and programs like that. >> host: jim mcintyre at the state treasurer who do you report to in your job? are you elected or appointed? >> guest: i am elected by the voters every four years. we have nine statewide elected officials in washington state. other states have fewer but we are very active and i report to the voters. i'm there to try to make an independent voice on fiscal health and how do we manage our finances short and long-term? this is a long-term focus. in our state we issue a lot of bonds financi

mcintyre, for his comments. >> thank you, mr. chairman. the mark before the members today continues the tradition of strong bipartisan support for our men and women in uniform. i would like to thank my good friend chairman randy forbes for his leadership, for his friendship, for his hard work, and all the members of the subcommittee and subcommittee staff for their efforts over the last several months that enabled us to present this mark for inclusion in the 2015 defense authorization act. there are a number of provisions that i'm particularly interested in. the complex overhaul of the uss george washington, the submar e submarines and the destroyers. the creation of a deterrence fund that we discussed at length to provide flexibility for the navy and construction of the replacement submarines. authorization of an additional 96 tomahawk missiles and procurement authority. in as much as this is my last mark here, for the national defense authorization bill, i do want to particularly thank chairman forbes for his great friendship, his dedica

mr. jones. mr. mcintyre. >> no. >> mr. mcintyre votes no. mr. forbes. mr. forbes votes aye. mr. brady. mr. brady votes no. mr. miller. mr. miller votes aye. mrs. davis. mrs. davis votes no. mr. wilson. mr. wilson votes aye. mr. longevon. no. mr. lobiando. aye. mr. larson. mr. larson votes no. mr. bishop. mr. bishop votes aye. mr. cooper. mr. cooper votes no. mr. turner. mr. turner votes aye. miss bordiao. no. mr. klein. mr. klein votes aye. mr. courtney. mr. courtney votes no. mr. rogers. mr. rogers votes aye. mr. lopezak. no. mr. franks. mr. franks votes aye. miss songus. miss songus votes no. mr. schuster. mr. schuster votes aye. mr. garramendi. no. mr. conoway. eye. mr. johnson. mr. johnson votes no. mr. lamborn. mr. lambborn votes aye. miss hanabusa. no. mr. whitman. mr. whitman votes aye. miss spear. miss spear votes no. in hunter. mr. hunter votes aye. mr. barber. mr. barber votes no. dr. fleming. dr. fleming votes aye. mr. carson. mr. carson votes no. mr. kaufman. mr. kaufman votes aye. miss shay-porter. miss shay-porter votes no. mr. ridgel. mr. ridgel votes aye. mr. maf

mr. mcintyre, the ranking member of this committee has that same model over his door. mr. miller who chairs the va committee has in god we trust up in his office. mr. conaway chairs the ethics committee has it up in his office. mr. wittman pictures the readiness subcommittee has it up in his office. dr. fleming has it up in his office. chairman of the government reform committee is putting it up in his office. chairman of the ways and means committee in his office. speaker of the house in his office. here's the question i asked for both of you do today. give us that teaching moment of, one, how that's any different than this cadet putting his own personal verse on his own personal whiteboard? and number two, how is that offensive to leadership principles? >> so, perhaps i'll start if it's all right, mr. forbes. i read this in the press as well, and i did have a chance to talk to general johnson yesterday to say kind of what's going on with this. so i want to share with you what she should with in terms of how this incident actually unfolded. i'll get to that in just a seco

the chair now recognizes the gentleman from north carolina, mr. mcintyre. >> thank you, mr. chairman. we all know the road to this farm bill conference has been long, and i know we're glad this day is here. i do want to thank the leadership from both the house and senate for your hard work and your consistency in bringing us to this point. the farm bill is critical to my home state of north carolina as agribusiness continues to be the number one industry as it has been since colonial days. in fact, employing approximately one out of every five north carolina -- north caroli carolinaresidents. i along forward to us moving this to a conclude, having a strong, fiscally responsible, bipartisan bill we can pass and do it as soon as possible. we're all tired of waiting. we've witnessed the harsh effects of an expired farm bill a few weeks ago with the storm that devastated the livestock industry in the midwest. this type of concern shows the importance of passing a bill and doing it soon to give certainty and security for our producers because we know disasters can happen any time

mr. nelson nelson: it's by chery stolberg and mike mcintyre. "shortly after president obama started his second term, a loose-knit coalition of conservative activists, led by former attorney general edwin middlmeese, gathered in the capl to plot strategy. their four repeal mr. obama's health care law was going nowhere and they desperately needed a plan. out of that session held one morning in a location the members insist on keeping secret aim a little noticed -- quote -- "blueprint to defunding obamacare" signed by mr. meese and the leaders of more than three dozen conservative groups. it articulated a take-no-prisoners legislative strategy that has long percolated in conservative circles that republicans could derail the health care overhaul if conservative lawmakers were willing to push fellow republicans, including their cautious leaders, into cutting off financing for the entire federal government." that's just the first three paragraphparagraphs, mr. presid. if that's true, then all these high-minded ideas of the golden rule and treating o

mr. mcintyre? >> no. >> mr. mcintyre votes no. mr. forbes? >> no. >> mr. forbes votes no. mr. brady? >> aye. >> mr. raidty votes aye mr. miller? >> no. >> mr. miller votes no. mr. andrews? >> no. >> mr. andrews votes no. mr. wilson? >> no. >> mr. wilson votes no. mrs. davis? >> no. >> mrs. davis votes no. mr. langevin? >> no. >> mr. langevin votes no. mr. bishop? >> no. >> mr. bishop votes no. mr. larson? >> no. >> mr. larson votes no. mr. turner? >> no. >> mr. turner votes no. mr. cooper? >> aye. >> mr. cooper votes aye. mr. klein? >> no. >> mr. klein votes no. ms. bordallo? >> [inaudible] >> ms. bordallo? ms. bordallo votes no. mr. rogers? >> no. >> mr. rogers votes no. >> mr. courtney? >> no. >> mr. courtney votes no. mr. franks? >> no. >> mr. franks votes no. mr. loebsack? >> no. >> mr. loebsack votes no. mr. schuster? >> no. >> mr. schuster votes no. ms. son gas? >> aye. >> ms. tsongas votes aye. mr. conaway? >> no. >> >> mr. land bourne votes no. mr. johnson? >> aye. >> mr. johnson votes aye. mr. whitman? >> mr. whitman votes no. mr. hunter? >> no. >> mr. hunter votes no

mcintyre votes no. mr. miller? >> no. >> mr. miller votes no. mr. andrews? >> no. >> mr. andrews votes no. mr. wilson? >> no. >> mr. wilson votes no. mrs. davis? >> no. mrs. davis votes no. >> mr.-- [inaudible] >> no. >> mr. langevin? >> no. mr. langevin notes no. mr. bishop? >> no,. >> mr. bishop votes no. mr. larson? >> no. >> mr. larson votes no. mr. turner? >> no. >> mr. turner votes no. mr. cooper? >> aye. >> mr. cooper votes aye. ms. bordallo? >> no. >> ms. bordallo votes no. mr. rogers? >> no. >> mr. rogers votes no. mr. courtney? >> no. >> mr. courtny votes no. mr. franks? >> no. mr. franks votes no. mr. loebsack? is. >> no. mr. loebsack votes no. mr. zeuser? >> no. mr. schuster votes no. ms. tongas? >> aye. >> ms. tsongas votes aye. >> mr. conaway? >> no. >> mr. conaway votes no. mr. land born? >> no. >> mr. lanborn votes no. mr. johnson? >> aye. >> mr. johnson votes aye. mr. hunter? >> no. >> mr. hunter votes no. ms. spear? >> [inaudible] >> ms. spear votes aye. >> dr. fleming? >> no. >> dr. fleming votes no. mr. barber? >> no. >> mr. barber votes no. mr. coffma

if you want to pick it up, mr. mcintyre, but your friend who suggested the change from ptsd to post-traumatic stress syndrome, t. have any sense -- do you have any sense of that monica would have a better shot at government for the purple heart than ptsd does now? thank you. >> it would probably have less. i don't know how we're going to do with the question of how this plays towards purple heart because the purple heart, regulations are pretty clear, and physical one is a physical world and a cause is a cause. that's very clear. and as you can attest better than i, psychological issues are very hard to tell, very hard to accept what the problem is. it's very hard to address a treatment for the problem but it's very hard to tell when the problem is solved. so that makes it very hard to assign, you know, an award for the fact that you've suffered that problem. additionallyproblem. additionally, so where did that come up? doesn't have to be combat related? not necessarily. if you are, if you treat remains at dover ai

i am not sure which common it is, if you want to pick it up, mr. mcintyre. but your friend who suggested the change from ptsd to posttraumatic stress syndrome, do you have any sense that monica would have a better shot at the entitlement to the purple heart then ptsd does now? >> it would probably have less. i don't know how we will deal with the question of how displaced it is very hard to tell when the problem starts and it's very hard to know what the problem is. it's very hard to address a treatment. so that makes it very hard to assign and award the sacrifice that we have suffered. the thing that i'm operating in is that folks have been wounded come up wrangham home. you people home up to the moment they arrive. what they are thinking, if they come back to combat come back him as a flash forward. i would prefer to invite the state surgeon to comment on that. the vermont national guard state surgeon. this is a thoughtful and brilliant man with five or six tours under his belt and this is not a new issue. would you like to comment quickly? >> along the li

i am not sure which common it is, if you want to pick it up, mr. mcintyre. but your friend who suggested the change from ptsd to posttraumatic stress syndrome, do you have any sense that monica would have a better shot at the entitlement to the purple heart then ptsd does now? >> it would probably have less. i don't know how we will deal with the question of how displaced it is very hard to tell when the problem starts and it's very hard to know what the problem is. it's very hard to address a treatment. so that makes it very hard to assign and award the sacrifice that we have suffered. the thing that i'm operating in is that folks have been wounded come up wrangham home. you people home up to the moment they arrive. what they are thinking, if they come back to combat come back him as a flash forward. i would prefer to invite the state surgeon to comment on that. the vermont national guard state surgeon. this is a thoughtful and brilliant man with five or six tours under his belt and this is not a new issue. would you like to comment quickly? >> along the li

if you want to pick it up, mr. mcintyre, but your friend who suggested the change from ptsd to posttraumatic stress sin dome, do you have a sense that a moniker would have a better shot at bite element to the -- entitlement to the purple heart than ptsz does now? thank you. >> it would probably have less. i don't know how we're going the deal with the question of how this plays toward the purple heart, because the purple heart's pretty -- the regulations are pretty clear, and, you know, a physical wound is a physical wound, and a cause is a cause. and that's very clear. and as you can attest better than i, psychological issues and problems, it's very hard to tell when a problem starts, to know exactly what the problem is, it's very hard to address a treatment for the problem, it's very hard to tell when the problem is solved. so that makes it very hard to assign, you know, an award for the fact that you've suffered that problem. additionally, so where does that come up? i mean, does it have to be combat related? no

i want to thank like colleagues mr. mcintyre the custer mr. enyart and ms. bustos for supporting this. it makes no sense to me that we have these opportunities and we spend a billion dollars a day. we can do it at home. it's not -- is broadening our portfolio using what we have in this program leverages for every dollar we put in, $3 of private sector created jobs so with that i would yield the balance of my time to the gentlewoman ms. bhutto said she wants time. >> thank you representative waldman and i want to thank you for offering this amendment. just a couple of stories to share with you to play off of what representative walz said. we have and i hope this is just a quick and meaningful example. in a town called pearl city which is in the district i represent we have a dari farmer a guy by the name is doug block who finances methane digester with these funds and this methane digester turns manure and in this case manure from 800 cows into electricity. that not only reduces them in -- and emissions but also reduces his energy cost and without this fundin

if you want to pick it up, mr. mcintyre, but your friend is suggested the change from ptsd to posttraumatic stress syndrome , do you have any sense that that moniker would have a better shot at entitlements to the purple heart and ptsd does not? thank you. >> it would probably have less. i don't know how we will deal with the question of how this place toward the purple heart. the purple heart, the regulations are pretty clear. physical one is a physical one and because the cause. that is very clear. and, as you can attest better than i, psychological issues and problems, it's very hard to tell when the problem starts. very hard to know exactly what the problem is, and it is very hard to address it. treatment for the problem. earhart's tell when the problem is solved. that makes it very hard to assign a word for the fact that you have suffered that problem. additionally -- word is that come up? does it have to be, related? not necessarily. if you are -- if you treat remains a dover air force base and what you have

. >> thank you, mr. secretary. >> thank you, mr. mcintyre. >> thank you, mr. chairman, and thank each of you for your service to our cup. secretary hagel, i have three questions. if you can answer them yes or no, and then if you need an explanation. first of all, with possible delays in the f-35 procurement, do you believe the navy and the air force have budgeted sufficient funds to maintain the necessary strike fighter inventory to meet the national military requirement, the national military strategy requirements? >> we, i do. -- yes, i do. >> with regard to the national guard, in your opinion and given the current restrained budget atmosphere we know we're in, can we continue to adequately resource and equip the national guard and reserve component as an operational force, or do you feel like you're going to be in a position where you have to revert back to the strategic reserve model? >> well, the way i would answer it, i think the national guard and reserves are key components of our military force structure and will continue to be. and i think that, i th

that's mr. ryan's way of killing medicare. oh, yeah, he says you will get a voucher, you can buy medicare or you can buy private insurance. but it puts medicare into a death spiral. the ryan budget turns this successful, reliable, comprehensive source of health care that seniors have relied on for decades and have paid into, i might add, during their years of hard work into some unproven, unpredictable right-wing conservative experiment. well, i don't want to experiment with the elderly. i want them to have good health care that they can afford that's universal and that they can count on. obama, president obama has fought to strengthen medicare, and he believes, as we do, that it's a sacred contract, and he has made a commitment to strengthen medicare in the affordable care act. for example, by eliminating the gaps in coverage, closing the doughnut hole which we have already started to do. elderly iowans got over $600 back this year just from closing the doughnut hole, reducing the cost of prescription drugs. according to medi

mcintyre of north carolina and mr. crawford of arkansas. all three of us represent a district that right from the effect of our poultry growers and we would like nothing more than to see this industry grow and for it to create more jobs in the state nationwide. in my district in north carolina, we have felt the effect of an integrated filing of bankruptcy and other growers that have contracted with fattah integrator being left with no market for the chickens or turkeys they were raising. most recently the bankruptcy incorporated located in my district resulted in hundreds of producers having their contract voided and constituents asking me what i do to help them when in contact and being treated there is no easy way to move forward, and in a worst-case scenario some producers are unable to find new contracts and are left with large debt from the mortgages on their chicken houses and equipment. the worst-case scenario is exactly what happened to my coming to many of my growers in my district there were no new contracts we had and they were s

mr. mcintyre both aye. >> mr. chairman, i'd like to change my vote. >> ms. sanchez both aye. >> let's not change anymore until we find out the results. >> mr. rogers. >> mr. rogers boasts aye. >> anyone else wish to change? >> the clerk will report the tally.

amendment by mr. frakes. it would regard improvements to army vehicles and an amendment by mr. courtney that would regard aircraft survivability equipment and an amendment by mr. enters that would require a report on the vertical construction and an amendment by mr. enters that would demonstrate technologies and an amendment by myself to clarify that would clarify section 214 in the subcommittee mark regarding ground. it does not moving target indicating air force air aircraft to a manned systems, and an amendment by mr. enters that would report language regarding the joint tactical radio system. >> any discussion of the amendment? >> the question is on the adoption of the amendment. those in favor will say aye. those opposed will say no. the ayes have it. the amendment is agreed to. >> no further amendments? the chair recognizes mr. bartlett for the purpose of offering a motion. >> mr. chairman, i move to adopt the subcommittee report of the tactical air and land force as amended. >> so many in favor

mcintyre. >> thank you, mr. chairman. and thank you for your patience today with the questions. according to your repo to maturity transactions were total return swaps which were off balance. mf global retained the price and default risk. the head of the sec is now probing the accounting treatment and the disclosure. the financial accounting standards board recently decided that repo to maturity is the only type of transaction to get off-balance-sheet treatment, and janet top coley says this is a form over substance roost to dodge using the total return swap since these transactions are well known as a means of using leverage. would you say that her characterization is accurate and why or why not? >> congressman, there's a lot in that statement. >> with right. that's why i want to give you a chance to respond. >> my view is that a better analogy would be, um, matchbook transactions where repurchase agreements against reverse repurchase agreements were put on the books of a broker dealer or an institution as opposed to total return swap. you mentioned that you retain the price mo

. >> mr. jones. >> aye. >> mr. mcintyre. >> aye. >> mr. aiken. >> aye. >> mr. brady. >> aye. >> mr. forbes. >> aye. >> mr. andrews. >> aye. >> mr. miller. >> aye. >> mrs. davis. >> aye. >> mr. wilson. >> aye. >> mr. long avin. >> aye. >> mr. lobe yaund dough. >> aye. >> mr. larsen. >> aye. >> mr. turner. >> aye. >> mr. cooper. >> no. >> mr. cline. >> aye. >> ms. bore die yoe. >> aye. >> mr. rogers? mr. rogers? mr. courtney? mr. courtney? mr. franks. >> aye. >> mr. lub sack. >> aye. >> mr. schuster. >> aye. >> ms. giffords? ms. giffords? mr. conaway. >> aye. >> ms. san gas. >> aye. >> mr. lamb born. >> aye. >> ms. pingry. >> no. >> mr. wittman. >> aye. >> mr. kissel. >> aye. >> mr. hunter. >> aye. >> mr. heyne rick. >> aye. >> dr. flemming. >> aye. >> mr. owens. >> aye. >> mr. kaufman. >> aye. >> mr. gair mend di. >> aye. >> mr. rooney. >> aye. >> mr. critz. >> aye. >> mr. plats. >> aye. >> mr. ryan. >> aye. >> mr. ridge elle. >> aye. >> mr. rupers burger. >> aye. >> mr. gibson. >> aye. >> mr. johnson. >> aye. >> mrs. hartsler. >> aye. >> mrs. castor. >> aye. >> mr. heck. >> aye. >>

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they were called messiahs curse at scotsmen caught angus campbell mcintyre. and both of whom drowned. and i read this story and thought i went to go find this rack because the spec chips.k. there's nothing to cause them to dk. they remain there. and also another was this incredibly lonely grave. so i thought i would try and get there eventually. and i was teaching this i did. i happen to be in cape town and got a fleet to the capital of the video. and then i tiny plane which took me to a remote place in the northern part of the skeleton coast, found an agreeable man with a land rover. and i have the gps reference of where we believe the ship was stranded. no one had seen it for years. one of the coast for a number of days and sure enough in the end we found it. with all its cargo is still strewn around. you'd open these big wooden boxes and you would find one of the cargo she was carrying a light bulbs, still unbroken after six years in the desert. it probably didn't work, but nonetheless it is still there. initial facilitator. the canvas was no longer with t